Saturday, August 28, 2010

I've enjoyed a bit of the current flurry of Dimensional Cinema, but much of movie 3-D seems mostly designed to separate audience members from their dollar bills. So this is encouraging:

... Warner Bros. announced that Zack Snyder's upcoming action movie Sucker Punch would be converted to 3-D ... Considering the movie is described as "Alice in Wonderland with machine guns" ... 3-D seemed an appropriate format. The one sticking point is Snyder, however ...

"It’s a definitive no. Maybe it’s Guardians‘ fault a little bit, because I’ve seen what really awesome 3D looks like. We talked about it at first, but I’ve been kind of broken by Guardians to the point that I said "Guys, there’s no way that we can do something that’s remotely close to Guardians, let’s not every try." ...

Snyder, of course, recently completed The Legends of the Guardians, the CG owl picture, in genuine Three Dee, and so knows what the real article vs. the post-production, tacked-on version looks like. And he's telling his fine, entertainment conglomerate "Na-ah."

I'm sure Warner Bros. is thrilled about his artistic integrity.

As for myself, I think I'm pretty much through with the moving View Master, as it makes my retinas ache. But everyone has to seek his own pathway through the carnival of life, therefore if you enjoy goggling at objects floating off the big, silver screen, by all means goggle.

But there is some good stuff coming out. I've seen a good twenty or so minutes of "Priest" and it rocks. The 3D was converted, but no one would know if you didn't tell them. It's kick ass and the opening by Genndy is awesome. It looks like this decades "Blade."

So, that would be from THIS week's mainstream deluge of 3D-Obituary articles after Piranha, as opposed to the ones two weeks ago from Cats & Dogs 2?Guess if Guardians doesn't deliver, then we'll officially start getting the "Death of Animated 3-D" in the press...

(Well, studios, you wanted 3-D to be "common" in the theaters--Now it's so common, the audience is back to avoiding crap movies again and getting nitpicky over brands. Enjoy.) :)